Definitions
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- noun pharmacy A
drug providingescape from the problems ofreality , or givingdreams ofutopia .
Etymologies
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Portmanteau of utopia and opiate. The noun usage was coined by Richard H. Blum of Stanford University in 1964.
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Examples
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This conservative is tired of being the tax collector for progressive lunatic utopiate wet dreams.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement 2010
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This conservative is tired of being the tax collector for progressive lunatic utopiate wet dreams.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement 2010
mollusque commented on the word utopiate
Ideals can be perverted, idealists can go too far. Idealism is the utopiate of the apparatchik.
--John Rodden, 2002, Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995
February 7, 2008
xyresic commented on the word utopiate
To me, "utopiate" refers to a spiritual, inner utopia, an achievable one, as opposed to the external, idealistic political utopias usually discussed. But I guess I shouldn't surprise me that I'm not the first person to come up with that particular portmanteau.
January 17, 2009
xyresic commented on the word utopiate
1. a perverted ideal, or an ideal taken too far.
2. an internal, spiritual utopia which is perceived as achievable, as opposed to external, idealized, impossible political utopiae.
January 17, 2009
humongoloid commented on the word utopiate
any source that provides an intense, yet short-lived, sensation of perfect happiness followed by a need to experience it again.
September 23, 2009